Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School

Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School is a caring, inclusive school where pupils feel happy and safe and behave exceptionally well. Conduct is strong across lessons, corridors and playtimes, and pupils benefit from a broad personal development offer that includes clubs, sports, trips and high-quality pastoral support. The school has an ambitious curriculum shaped around its community, with a strong emphasis on oracy and language that helps pupils, including many who speak English as an additional language, access learning effectively.

Strengths

• Pupils behave exceptionally well and show respect and compassion.
• The school is inclusive and supports pupils with SEND to achieve well.
• Leaders have designed an ambitious curriculum that meets pupils' needs.
• A strong focus on oracy and language supports pupils with English as an additional language.
• Reading and phonics are taught well, helping pupils become fluent readers.
• Early years provision helps children become confident, independent learners.
• Personal development is rich, with clubs, sports, trips and pastoral support.
• Attendance is improving through precise analysis and innovative strategies.
• Staff are well supported and governors hold leaders to account effectively.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.

Areas for Improvement

• The teaching of writing is not consistently effective in developing letter formation and spelling.
• A small number of pupils in most year groups do not always complete written work as accurately as they could.
• Attendance remains below national averages, although it is improving.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School attended 94.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 15.8% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.7% of pupils at Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School had 20.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 13.5% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 16.3% of pupils at Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 3.2% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School received £6,633 and spent £6,697 for each of its 423 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £23,000 (£55 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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All schools in Gravesend · Kent local authority: places and applications

Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School is part of Northfleet Schools Co-Operative Trust, which runs 6 schools. The nearest others:

• Shears Green Junior School Gravesend
• Northfleet Technology College Gravesend
• Northfleet School for Girls Gravesend
• Painters Ash Primary School Gravesend
• Lawn Primary School Gravesend

What is Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School is Good, from an inspection in May 2025.

When was Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School last inspected by Ofsted?

Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School was last inspected in May 2025.

How many pupils does Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School have?

Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School has 442 pupils on roll.

What age range does Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School cover?

Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 61% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School?

Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School is at Cecil Road, Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent, DA11 7BT.